Everyone old enough to remember 9/11 recalls where they were that day.

I was at a public radio conference in Philadelphia. Someone interrupted our session with the news that a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers in New York City. We crowded into the lobby to watch the big screen TV, just in time to see a passenger jet streak into the second tower in a burst of fire. We knew then the first plane wasn’t an accident. America was under attack.

Later we learned a third plane had crashed into the Pentagon.

A fourth, headed for the Capitol, went down in rural Western Pennsylvania. The clear, blue sky of 9/11 mocked our shock and grief. I can never again appreciate a beautiful September day without a subtle feeling of dread.

Jeff St.Clair ( middle, back row ) at the Public Radio Program Di

See Full Page